Whether it was intentional or not only factor in whether the lawyer should be brought up on charges.

Both intentionally citing bad cases or doing so out of gross incompetence are both disqualifications for doing that job. At the very minimum I'd expect the lawyer to be unable to practice until she's demonstrated she understands the level of seriousness this fault entailed, and undergoes training to ensure she doesn't do it in future. A one year suspension seems like it should be the minimum.

The clients of lawyers cannot afford their lawyers taking short cuts, let alone stupid ones like this. In some cases it can wipe out an entire client's estate, in others it can result in them being imprisoned or executed unfairly.

And, honestly, I think it's time for a national campaign to educate people on LLMs and their limitations, because the people pushing this shit sure aren't being honest about its limitations, assuming they even realize there are in the first place. Right now pretty much the only entity showing people that LLMs make crap up is Google, who very helpfully are including Gemini on most search results ensuring everyone can see how awful the fucking things are.

This popped up in my Mastodon feed (making it slightly more trustworthy than if it had in an X or Bluesky or Threads post, but still, take it with a pinch of salt):

https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-d...

I haven't had a chance to check whether this works yet because I don't have a phone that's been infected yet, but presumably will do soon.

For some reason, Americans seem to be obsessed with the idea of entire neighborhoods having a uniform appearance. I'm not sure why, but they'll actually get very angry if someone has an RV parked in their driveway and start advocating HOAs in that instance (who typically ban RVs and similar vehicles from the entire neighborhoods.)

I... don't understand the mentality. British immigrant here (possibly returning in the next year or two depending on whether things get worse, ironically more to protect my American born wife and child, the former being visibly latina.) I've had discussions with Americans in all kinds of different contexts and they've all pretty much agreed that somehow HOAs, despite their general distaste of them all, "at least entire the neighborhood looks good by banning RVs and boats from people's driveways" and I'm like WTF who cares what your neighbor has parked in their driveway and they've looked at me aghast anyone could possibly be fine with large vehicles that are not SUVs or pick-up trucks parked there.

Anyway that probably sounds like a side track but it isn't and here's why: that uniform appearance is very, very, hard to pull off unless everyone takes the trouble to do their lawn the same way as their neighbors. HOAs tightly regulate what you can plant in anything visible from the road, and typically at least half your lawn is in front of your house, and many take liberties with what supposedly is out of view too. So gardening becomes something that's impractical, arguably banned, if you are either in a place with an HOA, or you want to be seen as a "good neighbor". Flat boring lawns are cheap to maintain and everyone can do it, while if one house has a garden with flower beds and rock gardens and so on, either all houses would have to do it, or the neighbor would be fucking up the neighbor's "property values" the same way they would if they, uh, had a trailer (caravan) parked on the side of the house.

To me, I don't understand the mentality. Diversity is good. Beauty comes from diversity. And who gives a fuck what vehicles someone else owns as long as they don't park larger vehicles in the street. But that's the mentality.

That does look pretty bad, Tom Arnold in the Tom and Arnie picture just jumped out at me as having the uncanny valley thing going on which shouldn't be a thing with real photos of real people.

All the more stupid because they're 4K AI upscales of 1080p of... 35mm movies. They could have just gone back to the film and rescanned it. I'm guessing laziness is a factor here? They'd rather spend gobs of money on a computer doing this thinking, despite decades of experience telling us otherwise, that computers will just do the job without any problems, than laboriously check a scan frame by frame for film artifacts.

What is it about directors crapping over their own movies like this? First Lucas with the "enhanced" OT, now this? I expected better of James Cameron, he's notoriously perfectionist, but apparently he doesn't actually care if it's any good any more before slinging it out the door in the name of marketing.

My first thought.
Who eats a hot dog every day?
I have one every few weeks.
At age 76 I really don't care if my is shortened by 0.1%

The BBB was supported by the overwhelming majority of conservatives. That's why the Republicans passed it. One or two billionaires bitching about it doesn't change that.

The Republicans don't, and never have, cared about deficit spending. It was Saint Reagan who actually started the modern trend of overspending. Literally the only time they bring it up is when there's a democrat in office and they want to shoot down any spending that might alleviate poverty. Meanwhile, historically, Democrats have done better controlling the debt than Republicans.

So why hasn't Europe been bombed yet? The Euro is doing well and many non-EU countries are switching to it as their preferred reserve currency.

The EU also has plenty of military might. The fact the US has more is neither here nor there given both (and Russia) can destroy the world many times over in the space of a few minutes.

Try looking for the "Jump to recipe" button, that's on most websites.

The reason for all the garbage is that... get this... Google downranks websites without paragraphs and paragraphs of filler material that just display the recipe. Trust me, most recipe sharers don't particularly want to write 10 paragraphs of crap about Carrabbas Style Lentil Soup.

> Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.

Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is going. I do recommend doing two things: creating a media server of some sort, and keeping it in a back-up schedule.

(Disk media isn't immune from problems either, I'm finding a large number of DVDs I have suffer disk rot, probably because WB cheaped out in the mid-2000s)

Back-ups aren't hard these days. Use older, disused, hard drives of the kind you probably have a pile of anyway because you're a Slashdotter, and a device like this:

https://www.newegg.com/istarus...

This is something that means you can treat SATA drives the same way you did floppies back when we used REAL computers.

Second advantage of this is that you can save everything, including the time you'd otherwise need to re-rip your entire media collection if it fails. I've learned the hard way that's not as easy as it sounds.

They care about being punished if they're caught, yes, but only if the punishment is something somewhat more than 5000 quid.

It's not that they're afraid of innovating, it's that they're afraid of having to do the good, consumer friendly, form of innovation where you create better products for end users, rather than enshittify them to boost your share price temporarily through "innovations" that actively harm end users.

It was a rant, but one that was both on-topic and that didn't, actually, claim Trump was responsible for the satellite loss. But then you have someone with the real TDS (the derangement that makes someone admire him) jump in claiming the post said something it didn't, followed by a line of deranged Trump fanatics protesting it was unfair the false post was modded down or criticized or that liberals had claimed they are always right (?) and so on.

I'm so tired of this, but even more I'm so tired of *gestures everywhere* WTF has happened to the world? I miss the days when conservatives just had different opinions on how to provide universal healthcare coverage or whether we need to split marriage into a religious and civil part in order to give equal rights to non-heterosexuals. Sure, they had some pretty awful views about muslims, but FFS, this is just awful.

SpaceX is doing very well launching stuff into LEO and GTO. But plenty of organizations do that and have been doing that since the 1970s. It's (relatively speaking) fairly easy, and SpaceX's main success has been doing it more cheaply and more efficiently than anyone has before.

SpaceX is not having much luck going further or more complicated than putting things in GTO. They haven't orbited the moon, or have a working vehicle for doing so yet (Starship is nowhere near ready), and leaving Earth's orbit is part of the same not-ready project.

Don't get me wrong, with the exception of the idiot who owns the company, SpaceX are some of the smartest space people in the world. They may well get Starship working if they can handle Musk enough to keep him out of it but continue to fund it. The latter... I'm wary in the current political climate of assuming it'll happen just because it excites him. He might not have the funds or power he does indefinitely, and it's far from clear anyone else would take over and continue to fund SpaceX if he falls out of favor with the current administration.

Oh wow, that's interesting, I hadn't heard of that one! Amazingly, reading up on it it ran on AMPS and had a cellular modem. I thought having to use GSM CSD on my 9000 was kludgy!

I assume he's talking about the Nokia 9000? I had one, IIRC it ran something based upon GEOS, but you wouldn't have recognized it from the UI. It's entirely possible there was an MS DOS clone sitting managing the file system, but I don't recall having a command line (I'm not sure I even had direct access to files in the 9000's UI.)

TBH in the 1990s there were a lot of mobile OSes, mostly for use with PDAs, and many were influenced heavily by desktop OSes at the time, but I'm not sure I'd call any clones. But at the same time many were very unsophisticated at the bottom layers. So there's that.